🧬🧪Research Technician Position Open🧬🧪 HHMI, UT Austin. Biochemistry/Biophysics- Assist recombinant protein expression, purification and structural analysis (protein NMR and CryoEM) to uncover the mechanisms of cell fate specification in plants. hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

🧬🌱Research Specialist Position Open🌱🧬 -Please spread the words HHMI, UT Austin. NGS-based analyses/single cell biology to investigate environmental and hormonal control of plant stem cell differentiation. Requires both wet lab and bioinformatic skills. hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Tenure-Track Plant Biology Assistant Professor position at UT Austin MBS. Review of the applications starts Nov. 1! Please spread the words🤠🌱🌼🌽🫛🍃🌾 jobs.plantae.org/jobs/2176440...

Why plant embryos do not differentiate stomata? Discovery of the key peptide hormone. Embryo-specific peptide EPFL8, perceived by ERECTA, inhibits SPCH in a TMM-independent manner. Excellent work by the Torii Lab alumnus, Prof. Xingyun Qi. Congrats🌱🔬! academic.oup.com/plphys/artic...

My commentary published in Current Biology! “Plant regeneration: Breaking the silence of totipotency by reprogramming a stomatal precursor cell” Full text available → authors.elsevier.com/a/1lzT-3QW8S...

"Tenure-Track Faculty Position - Plant Interkingdom Environment Interaction and or Plant Immunity at University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA *Application Deadline: 11/1/2025" Read more here: https://arabidopsis.org/news/jobs/view?file=Torii_10-16-25.pdf #PlantSciJobs

Congrats, Joe Ecker @salkinstitute.bsky.social, to receiving the McClintock Prize! Joe has been a visionary leader of the field of genetics and genomics – not only for plants – for decades www.salk.edu/news-release...

[ 博士が愛した論文] 私も寄稿させて頂きました。当時の植物発生学の常識を覆し、私の研究者人生を変えた論文を熱く解説. I am pleased to introduce the new book, where I, together with 18 other scientists in different fields, discuss about the favorite scientific paper! 😍🌱 natgeo.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/product...

Localized glutamine leakage drives the spatial structure of root microbial colonization www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

🌱Tenure-track Assistant Professor Position OPEN🌱 -Plant Interkingdom/Environment Interactions & Plant Immunity- at The Univ. Texas at Austin, Molecular BioSciences. Deadline Nov 1st. Please spread the words and APPLY! Contact me if you have any questions. apply.interfolio.com/175001

🌱Tenure-track Assistant Professor Position OPEN🌱 -Plant Interkingdom/Environment Interactions & Plant Immunity- at The Univ. Texas at Austin, Molecular BioSciences. Deadline Nov 1st. Please spread the words and APPLY! Contact me if you have any questions. apply.interfolio.com/175001

Exciting🌱! Reprogramming stomatal precursor cells to totipotency -- Cooperation of LEC2 with SPEECHLESS induces auxin biosynthesis genes, inciting a bifurcation of stomatal differentiation trajectory into a new, somatic embryo founder cell state. www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Excited this paper is finally published! We focused on the inner concave surface of LRR RKs to expand bacterial flagellin perception in plants. Selection indicates expanded perception is more common than previously thought. Experiments led by @jerrytli.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

So wonderful to catch up w/ long-term friends & colleagues and discuss about exciting topics of plant science in beautiful Denver ⛰️🥰!

Big thanks to Laura Tran for the wonderful coverage of our study in The Scientists Magazine! You captured and delivered the science in our work beautifully. Also big thanks to Lucia Strader for commenting on our findings! 🙏🏻 #STEM #PlantScience #Genomics www.the-scientist.com/plants-boost...

[ 博士が愛した論文] 私も寄稿させて頂きました。当時の植物発生学の常識を覆し、私の研究者人生を変えた論文を熱く解説. I am pleased to introduce the new book, where I, together with 18 other scientists in different fields, discuss about the favorite scientific paper! 😍🌱 natgeo.nikkeibp.co.jp/atcl/product...

Had fantastic time visiting my colleagues/friends at Univ. Edinburgh Molecular Plant Science Dept. Steven, Karen, Andrew, Justin and more, thanks for your hospitality and sharing exciting science! Great extra day for science after #PPRM2025 and to enjoy beautiful Scotland 🌱🏰🥰

Big thanks to Frank and the TSL receptor crews for organizing such a FANTASTIC meeting in beautiful Edinburgh! Nice to get to know the people and learn about their exciting science. So honored to share history of plant peptides & receptors in development, and some future directions🌱🥰 #PPRM2025

Looking back at some of the inspiring lectures from #PPRM2025 in Edinburgh—such a privilege to learn from so many outstanding researchers. Grateful for this community and the ideas it sparks. @keikoutorii.bsky.social @gittacoaker.bsky.social @marischuster.bsky.social

That’s a wrap for #PPRM2025. Great science, wonderful community and amazing location. Glad it all went smoothly and big thanks to @jackrhodes.bsky.social and @draegermarkus.bsky.social for helping organize the meeting.

Frank @frankmenke.bsky.social opens the PPRM2025. Exciting program ahead!

Hyemin unraveled the mechanisms of heterodimeric partner selectivity among the stomatal master regulatory TFs, their biological significance, and manipulation by small molecules. She is an award-winning confocal microscopist🔬🌱-Congrats, again!

Congratulations, our one-and-only grad student, Dr. Hyemin Seo @texasscience.bsky.social for the successful thesis defense with flying colors 🎉🍾🌱🧬🧪! We are so proud of you🥰

Our latest on brassinosteroid signaling: Ligand binding spectrum, specificity & selectivity of all BR receptors in Arabidopsis. By @albertocaregnato.bsky.social , @hmchen93.bsky.social and our great chemistry collaborators Mirek Kvasnica, Jana Oklestkova and Mirek Strnad.

Torii Lab, Summer 2025🌱🤘 @utexasresearch.bsky.social @hhmi.org

Torii Lab postdoc Dr. Pengfei Bai presenting an atlas of receptor-kinase associatome & proximitome (collaboration w/ one and only @edwardmarcotte.bsky.social), and identification of CME components enforcing stomatal patterning🌱 #PlantBio2025. Our Prereprint 😘: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Torii lab member and ASPB SURF recipient Chiaki Komatsu presenting her poster at the #PlantBio2025. "Proteomic profiling of receptor-like kinase signaling network critical for stomatal morphogenesis". Great job, Chiaki🥰🌱! #PlantScience #UndergraduateResearch

(finally recovered my password--- coming back here updating exciting news in the Torii lab 😘🌱

Professor Keiko Torii, a principal investigator at ITbM, was awarded the IPGSA 2025 Silver Medal www.itbm.nagoya-u.ac.jp/en/news/2025...

Delivered a plenary lecture at the JSCB-JSDB Conference, about interplay of cell cycle and cell fate during plant epidermal development🌱. Thank you, organizers for inviting to this fantastic conference! So nice to be back in Nagoya, too. pub.confit.atlas.jp/en/event/jsc...

A peek-a-boo view of Mt. Fuji from my neighborhood. Love y'all, Japan, till next time 😘🗻

One of the best parts of the conference at the university campus - Catching up with a Torii Lab alumnus, Prof. Daniel Sloan at CSU 🐏! Dan joined the Torii Lab 20 years ago as a fresh college graduate- he chromosome walked to the MUTE locus, a master regulator of stomatal differentiation 🥰🌱.

Truly honored and humbled (and genuinely surprised) to be the 2025 IPGSA @ipgsa2025.bsky.social Silver Medalist along w/ the eminent plant biologists, John Bowman and Jenny Russinova. Thank you. Plant peptides rock!! 🥰

Our latest! K63-polyUb of the ERECTA receptor kinase by PUB30/31 is required for the ligand induced receptor endocytosis for stomatal patterning. Our results show that ERECTA signals at the PM. Congrats, Liangliang, Minh & the team🌱! www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

So proud of you 🥰🎓

ワシントンDCにある米国科学アカデミー(NAS)会員選出の式典にて、アカデミーを創設したリンカーン大統領の本に署名しました。国際会員の一人として、この複雑な時勢の中、今にも増して、米国と日本の科学の交流と振興、若手研究者の育成に尽力する所存です。 bsky.app/profile/keik...

I am deeply honored to join the NAS and to add my name to the book of President Abraham Lincoln. As an International Member, I aspire to strengthen the scientific ties between the USA and Japan, and to contribute to the progress of science in this complex global landscape.

Amazing !! Antiproteolysis peptides (APPs), identified by artificial intelligence, stabilized TF by inhibiting E3 ligase to induce resistance. Targeted Inhibition of Protein Degradation #TIPD #PPSTasis www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Commentary www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

エディター仕事で論文４０報ほど捌いて、To do listがゼロになった（別の雑誌のエディター仕事が入ったけど). 急にフワッと楽になった気分。分野へのサービスを頑張った自分を褒めたい。でも、私の論文もなんとかしなくては🥰。もう精神的体力(脳力)と根性の世界だよね。

Our invention of synthetic orthogonal auxin and engineered receptor system (cvxIAA, picocvxIAA-ccvTIR1) is now covered by the US patent. Great collaboration w/ synthetic chemists at Nagoya ITbM! I'm so grateful for this amazing opportunity🥰. patentimages.storage.googleapis.com/fe/ec/4c/bff...

Another insightful webinar part of the wonderful @plantcellatlas.bsky.social Plant Cell Identity Webinar Series. This time @keikoutorii.bsky.social and @justinwwalley.bsky.social gave us a perfect ratio of biology and technology excitement! youtu.be/rE-JP2T0SoA?... #PlantScience #PlantPostdocs

Thank you @plantcellatlas.bsky.social for the opportunity to share our thoughts on cell types and cell states in plants💚🌱! I also learned the amazing forefront of single cell proteomics from @justinwwalley.bsky.social 🥰 bsky.app/profile/nata...

米国科学アカデミーの緊急ミーティング

Keep this in mind: The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II was carried out by executive order—from the President of the United States. 🧵

🌱 When a root cell undergoes symmetric division, are the daughter cells actually identical? By combining live-cell imaging and scRNAseq we discovered a new cell state with uneven BR activity. Read our full paper in Cell: doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... @nvukas.bsky.social @trevormnolan.bsky.social

March 10, 1945- The Great Bombing of Tokyo- just overnight, more than 100,000 civilians were burned to death. My grandfather was a medical doctor running a small clinic in downtown Tokyo, so he was not allowed to leave the city. With that bombing, he and all other nurses and doctors perished. 1/

[Position Open- Lab Manager] We are looking for Lab Manager who performs both high-level lab management and research projects! Please spread the words🥰🌱🔬🧪 拡散希望】HHMI/UT AustinのTorii研究室では、研究プロジェクトとラボのマネージングの両方に携わるLab Managerを募集中です。多彩なアプローチで植物の発生の仕組みに迫ります。 hhmi.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Extern...

Plant Science Research Weekly -- Finding balance: how plants achieve signal specificity in stomatal development and defense (Science Advances) @keikoutorii.bsky.social @arvidhema.bsky.social (Summary by Kes Maio) plantae.org/finding-bala... #PlantaePSRW

The fourth session of the Plant Cell Identity Webinar Series is one week from today on March 11! Join us for talks from @keikoutorii.bsky.social and @justinwwalley.bsky.social Register Here: bit.ly/PCAPCI_Webinar

Get in dorks, we're going protesting! STAND UP FOR SCIENCE WITH US ON MARCH 7TH, 2025 WASHINGTON DC AND EVERY STATE CAPITOL Because science is for everyone! Find us at www.standupforscience2025.org #standupforscience2025 #scienceforall #sciencenotsilence